Once again me and my favourite German chocolatier, Oliver Kuhl (i.e. the only one I know by name, except for Mr Ritter) join forces again. I previously consumed his organic milk chocolate bar and found it to be completely devoid of flavour. Will this bar pack a punch or will he be limp wristed again?

The first difference between the two bars is that this uses dark chocolate rather than milk chocolate. 52% dark chocolate to be exact. It simply say it’s “with espresso”, and so consulting the ingredients shows it to have 9.5% espresso powder within the bar. It’s also fairly high up the ingredient list so to be fair on Oliver, it sounds like he’s tried to really pack some flavour into this. I guess he read my previous review, didn’t mean to hurt your feelings, dude.

The wrapper is still plain as hell. I guess that’s the look he’s going for? Anyway open the bastard up and inside we have a foil wrapper, open that up and BAM coffee smell all up in your nostrils. Actually not really, the bar seems to lack any real smell at all. Not the best first sign.

Take a bite out of it and the first thing you taste is a bit of dark chocolate, within a second or two though this is eradicated by the strong coffee taste. Definitely more espresso than capuccinno, this is a dark coffee taste without being too dark. The fact that the chocolate is only 52% works in its favour here, as anymore and it would have been far too bitter for my liking. The coffee is nice and strong without being overbearing, and is just the right kind of flavour.

It’s a smooth dark chocolate bar, the coffee is simply blended in, and overall it’s really good. I always prefer my coffee bars to be more creamy than dark, but this one got it in the middle, perhaps vearing towards the dark side a bit, and did it very well. I criticised Oliver in the past for lacking flavour but this one had plenty of it and what was here impressed me.